Emanuel Barica

Emanuel Barica is an enterprising young artist who is now well known among the Roma in well-known and well-connected young artist in Berlin. He took part in our exhibition ‘Young Romani Artists’ and most recently in the exhibition ‘Heterotypie X 3’ curated by Dr Alvaro Garreaud. In the last months, the young artist has been experiencing a sustained artistic development. With diligence and drawing talent, he develops his ‘drawing of intuition’. He often uses music in the process, whose sounds he follows in a performative way. His workplace is the street, often the lively Alexanderplatz in Berlin, where he constantly where he constantly creates new works to the applause of the audience. Barica’s art has long since Barica’s art has long since moved away from a simple but detailed from a simple but detailed depiction of his subject in realistic portraits to a his own visual language. He confronts the harshness of the reality the harshness of life on the street with often poetic pictorial works pen, fineliner or drawing ink in reduced but also bold colours.

His art is never directly political, but his attitude is: the Romanian Roma sees himself as an artistic activist who campaigns for the interests of the Roma minority, the recognition of their past and the overcoming of a difficult situation characterised by exclusion. He wants to provide a counter-image with his art. It was Emanuel Barica, for example, who was the youngest person to firmly voice the manifesto of the ‘Young Romani Artists’ with a firm voice. With Barica, we get to know an artist who is working feverishly at the very beginning of a career as an artist his path on the ‘road to reality’ lies ahead of him.

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